[LAD] [LAU] limiting email traffic

[Fred Gleason]

On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:19 22, drew Roberts wrote:

> Have the lists history been mined to see how many "valuable" users violate 
> this proposed policy one some days? Perhaps they go a week and then have 20 
> posts in one day and  then go another week?

FWIW, this tends to be my own usage pattern -- a day or two of interacting with various fora, then back to the 'coding cave' for a week or three.  On my first day 'back in public', I can easily generate a dozen messages on certain lists.

Might we want to consider modifying this rule so as to apply to a dozen messages *in a given thread* per day?  I agree that, if one is doing that much shouting about a single topic, it'd probably be better to give it a rest.  :)

Cheers!


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